"I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning."

-- Jurgen Habermas

#War Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.”
“You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.”
“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”
“Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.”
“Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.”
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
“The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.”
“People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.”

Source : "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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